A quick glance at the films released in 1988 is a lesson in cinematic history.

The year saw comedy classics like Beetlejuice, Scrooged, The Naked Gun,Coming to America, Big and Big Top Pee-wee along with canon-making movies like Giuseppe Tornatore's heartbreaking ode to film Cinema Paradiso, Hayao Miyazaki's animated My Neighbor Totoro, Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and, of course, Die Hard.

While 1988 was a banner year for movies, one two-week span in particular was perhaps deserving of the title The Best Movie Release Run Ever. That time frame? Christmas 1988.